do...while loops

[Will Ware]

Jay O'Connor (joconnor at cybermesa.com) wrote:
> I was just trying to think of a practical (?) use for doing a "while"
> loop with a number other than 1

It could make sense if the "increment" operation were something tricky
and convoluted. I dunno, maybe something like

x = some_value
while x > some_threshold:
  do stuff with x
  x = 0.8 ** math.cos(x)

If the series of x values can't easily be generated by plugging a
sequence of integers into a function, then you might have a case for
using while. You'd be lucky, though, if your terminating condition
were as simple as x != 0.

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